“I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.” SchoolFallChurchMemoriesGradesElementary SchoolMadisonGrades In School Author:Jim Fowler
“You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.” KnowsWellsArtSchoolStudyWindowErasGradesGrades In School Author:Julie Taymor
“We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.” PeopleWayDifferentSchoolStuffParentBlackWhiteHigh SchoolDifferent WaysGradesBizarreMexicanGrades In SchoolAll Black Author:Jack White
“I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.” YearsSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolCatholicGradesGrades In SchoolCatholic School Author:William Mapother
“I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.” SaidSchoolTeacherGradesBlindnessGrades In SchoolDyslexic Author:Debbie Macomber
“I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.” AgeSchoolYoungOpportunityCreativeCollegeMarriedHigh SchoolGradesYoung WomenGrades In SchoolGood Grades Author:Debbie Macomber
“My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.” YearsFirstsHomeSchoolBrotherMomHigh SchoolMy MomMy BrotherGradesDeafOhioColumbusGrades In SchoolColumbus Ohio Author:Les Miles
“My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.” SchoolMotherFatherTeacherGradesSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolEighth Grade Author:Gordon Bell
“I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.” WellsWantedSchoolTypeThirdsRapGradesGrades In SchoolThird GradeGood Grades Author:Big Sean
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.” ThinkingYearsAbleSchoolPresidentLeaderHappenedTeamTaughtSonBaseballThirdsFormerCorporationsAweGradesImmigrantsStringsItalianTraveledPitcherDeanPhilanthropistMiltonHanging AroundDineGrades In SchoolFinanciersBaseball Team Author:Tommy Lasorda
“One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.” CareSchoolProcessAttitudeOne ThingInvolvedVery GoodGradesGrades In School Author:Bram Cohen
“I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they’re likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they’re in grade school.” IfsThinkingGivingChildrenHelpingSchoolPrayerPracticeMeditationQuietMindfulnessReflectionOur ChildrenContemplationGradesGreatest GiftsSpunGrades In School Author:Marianne Williamson
“I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.” MadeStillsSchoolPerfectBoysDaughterGradesMy DaughterHuman ConditionHalloweenParadesGrades In SchoolKryptoniteSupergirl Author:Jonah Goldberg
“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” WorldWayMayChildrenDifferentSchoolLearningBe GoodDifferent WaysGradesGiftedGrades In SchoolGood Grades Author:Chuck Grassley
“Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.” KindI CanSometimesReasonKidsSchoolScaryWorriedGradesGrades In School Book:G Source: G